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  <h1>Ant &amp; External Tools Tutorial</h1>
  <p>This chapter covers Eclipse's external tools framework, and its integration with <a href=
  "http://ant.apache.org/">Ant</a>, the build tool from the <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache Software
  Foundation</a>. For more information on Ant, see the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html">Apache Ant
  manual</a> for documentation. This chapter assumes a basic knowledge of Ant.</p>
  <p>This chapter is split into three main sections.</p>
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    <li><a href="qs-81_basics.htm">Eclipse Ant basics</a>: the basics of working with Ant buildfiles in Eclipse are
    covered</li>
    <li><a href="qs-92_project_builders.htm">Ant build files as project builders</a>: several Eclipse use cases are
    discussed</li>
    <li><a href="qs-95_external_tools.htm">External tools</a>: the external tools framework and how to use non-Ant
    tools are covered</li>
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